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"When Barbara Van Laar is discovered missing from her summer camp bunk one morning in August 1975, it triggers a panicked, terrified search. Losing a camper is a horrific tragedy under any circumstances, but Barbara isn't just any camper, she's the daughter of the wealthy family who owns the camp--as well as the opulent nearby estate, and most of the land in sight. And this isn't the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared in this region: Barbara's...
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A Southern saga of family lost and found from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the Sisterhood books.
Fern Michaels thrills us, once again, with the story of an unforgettable young woman who was stolen as a toddler from a poor but loving family, and who must journey through a maze of heartbreak before she can reclaim her true identity.
Raised in a magnificent Charleston house, Jessie Roland wants for...
Fern Michaels thrills us, once again, with the story of an unforgettable young woman who was stolen as a toddler from a poor but loving family, and who must journey through a maze of heartbreak before she can reclaim her true identity.
Raised in a magnificent Charleston house, Jessie Roland wants for...
4) Birnam Wood
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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2023.
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"The Booker-winning author of The Luminaries delivers a gripping thriller of high drama and kaleidoscopic insight into what drives us to survive"--
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2018.
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"From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a shocking and tender novel about a young woman's efforts to sustain a state of deep hibernation over the course of a year on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her...
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John Blake
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When Emily Lloyd burst onto the movie scene as a teenager she was hailed as the next Marilyn Monroe. Her stunning performance as precocious Lynda Mansell in David Leland's bitter-sweet comedy-drama Wish You Were Here thrust her into the spotlight, won her a BAFTA nomination, an Evening Standard Best Actress Award, and a National Society of Critics Award, and cemented the film's reputation as a British classic. Hollywood beckoned and Emily landed high...
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Envisioning a summer vacation in the humble Singapore home of a boy she hopes to marry, Chinese American Rachel Chu is unexpectedly introduced to a rich and scheming clan that strongly opposes their son's relationship with an American girl.
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2021.
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"A delicious twist on a Gothic classic, Rachel Hawkins's The Wife Upstairs pairs Southern charm with atmospheric domestic suspense, perfect for fans of B.A. Paris and Megan Miranda. Meet Jane. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates--a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. The kind of place where no one will notice if Jane lifts the discarded tchotchkes and jewelry off...
10) The alibi man
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Elena was once a child of wealth and privilege in Palm Beach until she was betrayed and disillusioned by those closest to her. She became an undercover cop until a tragic mistake ended her career, now she trains horses for a living. After finding the body of a friend she is determined to find the truth, that will shock Palm Beach society to its core, and could very well get her killed.
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"A deliciously funny, sharply observed novel of family, wealth, love and tennis, this zeitgeisty debut follows three women in an old Brooklyn Heights clan: one who was born with money, one who married into it, and one, the millennial conscience of the family, who wants to give it all away. Rife with the indulgent pleasures of affluent WASPS in New York and full of recognizable if fallible characters (and a couple of appalling ones!), it's about the...
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Dr. Kate English has it all. Not only is she the heiress to a large fortune; she has a gorgeous husband and daughter, a high-flying career, and a beautiful home anyone would envy. But all that changes the night Kate's mother, Lily, is found dead, brutally murdered in her own home. Heartbroken and distraught, Kate reaches out to her estranged best friend, Blaire Barrington, who rushes to her side for the funeral, where the years of distance between...
14) Burning wild
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Leopard people volume 3
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Bred by his capricious parents for his innate leopard-shifting abilities, billionaire Jake Bannaconni has spent his life in an emotional vacuum--especially after a tragic twist of fate left him to raise his infant son alone. But when his path crosses that of an enigmatic young woman, Jake's life takes a detour. There's something irresistible about Emma Reynolds that Jake can't live without. And hiring her as Jake's nanny will keep her close. (Bestseller)...
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James R Ashley
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2013.
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The motion picture industry started out ridiculed and despised at the end of the 19th Century and beginning of the 20th Century. The first movies in the 1890s were shown in vaudeville; then in penny arcades; then in nickelodeons. In the penny arcade one deposited a penny in a small machine and saw though an eye-piece a number of flip cards go by in rapid succession simulating movement. Later the machines would accommodate a small filmstrip spooling...
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James R Ashley
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2013.
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Thelma Todd's movie career spanned only 12 years (1924-36), during which she was in 55 films. She was a contract player during her entire career and never came close to achieving stardom. Although pretty, Thelma was not beautiful, nor particularly talented. And although she had high hopes for the future, she was largely stuck at a 2nd-rate studio in largely forgettable movies. And although she was able to keep a slim figure, it was only though crash...
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John Blake
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2014.
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1 online resource (274 pages)
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The first biography on the wonderful and weird fashion icon Cara Delevingne is living the dream. She is the girl who landed on her feet in the fickle world of fashion and she's here to stay. As the face of DKNY, Burberry, and Chanel, Cara's startling blue eyes, framed by trademark bushy eyebrows, gaze down from billboards across the world. But she's not just a pretty face; cutting an edgy swathe through the celeb party scene, Cara's quirky character--and...
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James R Ashley
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2013.
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Humphrey Bogart is regarded by the American Film Institute as the greatest actor in movie making history. This is not because he was the handsomest actor, because he clearly wasn't; almost every top actor of his age had a better looking face than him. As his studio boss Jack Warner once said when he intentionally left the "change in appearance" clause out of Bogart's contract, "there was nothing that could be done to your face that could hurt it a...
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John Blake
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2014.
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You've seen him head home with countless hotties and a mega-watt grin on his face--now learn how he does it. In 2011, loveable ladies magnet Gary Beadle was jobless and down to his last '20 when he was randomly asked to be in a new reality TV show called Geordie Shore. He'd never even heard of its American predecessor, Jersey Shore, but with his only prospects being his next dole cheque--and swayed by the offer of free booze--he signed himself up...
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James R Ashley
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2013.
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Joan's childhood was right out of a Dickens novel. Her mother was indifferent to her, her 3 fathers ran out on her, and her brother held her in contempt. She grew up alone and friendless, having to work her early years at a succession of menial jobs in order to make ends meet for her mother and shiftless brother. Having to work at school so many hours to pay her tuition, Joan had no time to be educated and much to her shame later in life, she had...
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